The Southeastern Armed Forces Museum Military Zone 7 is a military museum located at 247 Hoang Van Thu Street, Tan Binh District,

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. It covers all Vietnamese resistance to foreign occupation from the Chinese occupation, the

First Indochina War The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam) began in French Indochina from 19 December 1946 to 20 July 1954 between France and Việt Minh (Democratic Republic of Vi ...

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Cambodian–Vietnamese War The Cambodian–Vietnamese War ( km, សង្គ្រាមកម្ពុជា-វៀតណាម, vi, Chiến tranh Campuchia–Việt Nam), known in Vietnam as the Counter-offensive on the Southwestern border ( vi, Chiến dịch Phản ...

. The Museum's opening hours are from 07:30 to 11:30 and from 13:00 to 16:30 daily except Monday. Admission is free for Vietnamese and 40,000 VND for non-Vietnamese, plus VND 10,000 to take photos.

History

The museum was established on 5 February 1988 on the site of the former U.S. 3rd Field Hospital and is diagonally opposite the former

ARVN The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN; ; french: Armée de la république du Viêt Nam) composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. It is estimated to have suffe ...

Joint General Staff compound, now the headquarters of 7th Military Region (Vietnam People's Army). The buildings were originally built for the American Community School in Saigon in 1958/9, however when US dependents were ordered to leave

South Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...

in February 1965, the vacated buildings became available for use by the 3rd Field Hospital. The hospital was conveniently located near to

Tan Son Nhut Air Base Tan Son Nhut Air Base ( vi, Căn cứ không quân Tân Sơn Nhứt) (1955–1975) was a Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) facility. It was located near the city of Saigon in southern Vietnam. The United States used it as a major base durin ...

allowing for transfer of casualties within South Vietnam and the medical evacuation of casualties to other US hospital facilities in the Pacific.

Exhibits

The museum comprises two main sections: an outdoor display of large military equipment and a military museum.

Outdoor display

M-48 Tank at the No 7 Army Museum, Saigon

Items on display comprise: * M-30 122mm howitzer * M41 tank * M48A3 tank * M107 Self-Propelled Gun * M113 armoured personnel carrier *

M114 155 mm howitzer The M114 is a towed howitzer developed and used by the United States Army. It was first produced in 1942 as a medium artillery piece under the designation of 155 mm Howitzer M1. It saw service with the US Army during World War II, the Korean ...

T-54 The T-54 and T-55 tanks are a series of Soviet main battle tanks introduced in the years following the World War II, Second World War. The first T-54 prototype was completed at Nizhny Tagil by the end of 1945.Steven Zaloga, T-54 and T-55 Mai ...

tank * model of the Tet Offensive attack on the U.S. Embassy

Military Museum

Displays include: *memorials to the leaders and heroes of the Zone 7 Military *model of several rooms in the

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References

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History

Exhibits

Outdoor display

Military Museum

See also

References